After Li Xiaojin was named Chifengbo and the chief military officer in charge of the entire Dengzhou Mansion, the ambitious Li Xiao immediately began his own governance plan.

The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Dengzhou Prefecture originally governed Dengzhou City, Ninghai Prefecture, Penglai County, Huang County, Fushan County, Qixia County, Zhaoyuan County, Laiyang County and Wendeng County, a total of one prefecture and eight prefectures and counties, among them, Huang County and Zhaoyuan County have long been merged into Chifengwei, so Li Xiao only received the remaining six prefectures and counties.

Ten days later, the officials of the original prefecture and county had all been handed over and transferred, and Li Xiao dispatched departments such as the Department of Civil Affairs, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Industry, the Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, and the Department of Security to each county according to Chi Fengwei's governance model, and implemented a new mode of governance for the entire Dengzhou Prefecture.

The townships and towns below each prefecture and county, like Chifengwei, also set up civil affairs branches, and set up semi-official positions such as village chiefs and chiefs for the natural villages below each township and township, so as to achieve comprehensive control over the grassroots politics of the county and completely replace the original system of imperial power not going to the countryside and the autonomy of the gentry.

At the same time, Li Xiao decided to move his own general military official palace from Chifeng City to Dengzhou City with a series of official yamen.

The entire Chifeng Battalion, after the military camp in Dengzhou City was built, also moved out of Chifeng City and stationed in Dengzhou City.

Li Xiao did this after careful consideration.

This approach can achieve a real separation of government and business in Chifeng City, unlike the current situation, where the military camp and the market are mixed in one city, such a nondescript way, so as to make Chifeng City a simple industrial and commercial city, and become the economic and cultural center of Li Xiaojun.

The entire political and military operation and management system of Li Xiaojun was transferred to Dengzhou City, making Dengzhou City the political and military center of Li Xiaojun.

After the entire government department moved to Dengzhou, Li Xiao ordered that all the original departments of Dengzhou City be upgraded to ministries, and they were in charge of subordinate departments in Shandong, Taiwan, Jeju and other places.

As a result, a series of departments, such as the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, and the Ministry of Security, were established one after another to oversee the various departments under Li Xiao's jurisdiction.

After the various departments settled down, Li Xiao ordered to immediately rebuild the already dilapidated Dengzhou City, and expand the entire Dengzhou Land City into a magnificent giant city with a circumference of twenty miles.

For the city wall of Dengzhou City, Li Xiao decided that, like Chifeng City, it should be designed as a giant city wall with a width of 6 meters and a height of 15 meters.

At the same time, Li Xiao stipulated that the entire Dengzhou City had four city gates in the southeast, south, and northwest, and they were designed to hide the jack pendant at any cost, and in addition to the north gate leading to the north water, the urn city was built outside the city gate.

On the city wall, such as pheasant moats, female walls, corner towers, fort towers, sheep and horse walls, forts, perforations and other defensive measures, are all built according to the system to ensure the defensive ability of the city wall.

The whole Dengzhou City, outside the east, south, west and three city walls, are dug with moats, because the whole Dengzhou City presents a trend of high in the south and low in the north, just use the Huangshui River in the east of Dengzhou City and the Pingchang River in the south, introduce river water from it, and fill it in the moat, so that it passes around the city.

At the same time, in the middle of Dengzhou, Li Xiao ordered the construction of an inner city with a circumference of 2 miles, the scale of the city wall was the same as that of the outer city, and various defensive measures were also built, and then in the inner city, various official offices including his own mansion, as well as important institutions such as silver treasury were built.

Once the inner city was built, Li Xiao and the government departments below moved into it.

In the outer city of Dengzhou Lucheng, Li Xiao's preliminary plan is to plan four central avenues like Chifeng City, and plan the entire city into four regions: northeast, northwest, southwest, and southeast.

The Northeast and Northwest districts are used by the Sailors, the Northwest Zone is set up as the Sailors' camp, and the Northeast Zone is all used for the construction of large shipyards and ship repair yards.

The southwest and southeast districts were set up for the use of the soldiers of the Chifeng Battalion, and the southwest district built various military barracks buildings such as barracks, stables, school yards, and arsenals, while the entire southeast district set up storage weapons depots, armor depots, gunpowder depots, and huge granaries, so that if there was an enemy siege, it could be used for a long time.

In addition to allowing the existing sailors to be stationed, Li Xiao also further expanded the scope of the entire water city, and truly realized Li Xiao's plan to berth hundreds of large ships with thousands of materials.

In the end, Li Xiao appointed his old brother, Chen Monkey, who had been serving as the logistics manager in Chifeng City, as the head of Dengzhou City.

Let this brother, who is thin and small, and has a disability, be able to better play his own fine and thoughtful specialties.

Seeing Li Xiao's old brothers who were carrying the sentry cavalry like this, Chen Monkey was inexplicably grateful, and immediately told Li Xiao that he would fully manage this Dengzhou City and live up to Li Xiao's trust.

0 Li Xiao's order has been issued, there are countless bluestone, cement, bricks, lime and other building materials, from Chifengwei in the traffic rushed over, and as many as tens of thousands of construction teams came to Dengzhou City, under the unified command of Chen Monkey, the construction army immediately began to build near Dengzhou City, the entire Dengzhou City is full of dust and smoke, the construction workers are like swarms of worker ants, busy back and forth, Dengzhou boundary, has become an extremely busy construction site.

Due to the abundant supply of manpower and materials, Li Xiao predicts that the completely renovated and expanded Dengzhou City should be completed within four months, and it should be fully delivered in late autumn.

With this Dengzhou City, which was changed by Li Xiao into a military town, Li Xiao secretly thought that even if the Qing army entered the customs, they all attacked their own Dengzhou City, but they would not be afraid.

Half a month later, the statistics of various places in Dengzhou Mansion led by Xu Xiuqing were basically counted.

In addition to Weihaiwei, Chengshanwei, Jinghaiwei, and Dasongwei, the four main Davids in Dengzhou, there is no statistics on land and population, including Dengzhou City, a total of 1.4 million mu of cultivated land in six prefectures and counties, including Dengzhou City, including 200,000 mu of upper fields, 580,000 mu of middle fields, and the rest are all lower fields.

According to statistics, it has a total population of 260,000.

This statistic is so low that Li Xiao is a little unbelievable.

In this way, on average, each county has only more than 200,000 mu of cultivated land, and the population is only more than 30,000.

These populations are not evenly distributed, such as Haiyang, Wendeng and other counties in the south, the population is larger, each county has about 50,000 people, while Fushan County, Qixia County and other places in the war-torn area of Dengzhou City on that day, the population of each county is only more than 10,000 people.

Li Xiao sighed in his heart, in addition to the barren land of Dengzhou itself, it is difficult to support too many people, it can also be imagined how seriously Kong Youde's rebellion damaged the land of Dengzhou that day, and the abandoned land and the loss of population are really much beyond Li Xiao's imagination.

Next, Xu Xiuqing continued to report to Li Xiao that in addition to the four health centers, it has been investigated that about 1.2 million mu of wasteland that can be developed for cultivating grain, but because most of the Dengzhou area is barren mountainous land, most of the fields that can be newly cultivated in the future are of medium and lower quality.

Even so, there are only about 300,000 acres of cultivated land in each county, and most of them are middle and low farmland.

Compared with those counties in the south of the Yangtze River, which have one or two million mu of land at every turn, the land of Dengzhou Mansion under Li Xiao's rule seems to be like chicken ribs.

In addition, according to Xu Xiuqing's report, in the Dengzhou area, there are about 700,000 acres of sandy land, semi-arid land and mild saline-alkali land that can be developed into mulberry fields.

In addition, because Dengzhou is coastal on three sides, the tidal flat area is very large, Xu Xiuqing and others estimate that at least 120,000 acres along the tidal flat can be opened up into new salt pans.

On the basis of Xu Xiuqing's report, Li Xiao can calculate that 1.2 million mu of wasteland that can be converted into grain fields can be resettled, and at 20 mu per household and about 4 people per family, about 240,000 people can be resettled.

If 700,000 acres of mulberry fields can be developed, if each household is 30 acres of mulberry fields, more than 90,000 people can be settled.

The 120,000 acres of salt pans are difficult to manage and develop together because they are scattered all over the coastal areas of Dengzhou, so Li Xiao plans to develop the salt pans after the development of the grain fields and mulberry fields is completed, so as to complete the entire planning and layout step by step.

So Li Xiao gave Xu Xiuqing an order to go to Henan, Beizhili, Nanzhili, and Shandong again to recruit displaced people to come to Dengzhou's prefectures and counties to develop land and settle down, and Li Xiao demanded that this time it must be done in one step and recruit at least 300,000 or more displaced people to come over, so as to realize the comprehensive development of Dengzhou as soon as possible.

Listening to Li Xiao's new order, Xu Xiuqing laughed, and he said loudly: "My lord, now our army often recruits displaced people outside, and it has long been famous. For example, when we went to Henan and other places, in the streets and alleys of each state and county, the news of recruitment was made, and a large number of displaced people came to join us when they heard the news, which saved us from waiting for a lot of searching. ”

Li Xiao also laughed: "The country is based on the people, and those displaced people regard our army as a basis for survival, how can we lose to these compatriots." I heard that because our army went to Henan, Beizhili and other places to recruit displaced people, the number of local displaced people has been greatly reduced, but is it true? ”

Xu Xiuqing hurriedly said: "That's right, now the number of displaced people in other provinces, prefectures and counties near my Shandong is very small, and we need to go to Henan and Beizhili to recruit more people." After all, it is common for displaced people to travel from state to county, and it is common for them to miss from time to time. The students are thinking, like our army, there are hundreds of thousands of homeless people at every turn, and I am afraid that it is not enough in Henan and Beizhili and other places. ”

Listening to Xu Xiuqing's words, Li Xiao burst out laughing and fell into a deep groan for a while.

In fact, he knew that the number of displaced people he recruited was really insignificant in the entire history of the late Ming Dynasty.

According to historians, China had a population of 130 million at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the most conservative estimate is nearly 100 million.

In the seventh year of Shunzhi, excluding the southwest and other places, the population of the whole country was only 14 million, and the loss of as many as 80 million people was really appalling.

You must know that the Second World War, when the war spread around the world, the total population loss was only 50 million.

According to statistics, during the chaotic 50 years of the late Ming Dynasty, at least more than 40 million displaced people died in war and famine, and up to now, the total number of displaced people recruited by Li Xiao and the families of the captured displaced people is only more than 600,000 people, and even if these 300,000 people are recruited, it will only be nearly a million people.

Li Xiao thought to himself, now in Henan and Beizhili and other places, because the main areas of activity of the Liukou are in Shanxi and Huguang, it is still quite peaceful, and it is normal for the number of displaced people to be small.

If you really want to recruit a large number of displaced people, you may go to Huguang and Shanxi, which will be faster.

Perhaps, in the future, he can directly send troops to Shanxi and Huguang to recruit a larger number of displaced people.

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Li Xiao was pondering, when Xu Xiuqing suddenly made a new suggestion to Li Xiao.

"Master Li, the amount of grain fields in Shandong, Taiwan, Jeju and other places of our army is actually enough to supply the entire population of our army, and it is still more than enough for export.

Xu Xiuqing's suggestion made Li Xiao's eyes light up.

Yes, now that the food supply is sufficient, why can't we convert the inferior fields into cotton fields?

In Li Xiao's mind, the production and sales of cotton in the real history of the Ming Dynasty quickly flashed.

At present, in the Ming Dynasty, the cotton planted is the traditional Chinese short-staple cotton, which is resistant to drought and salinity, and usually does not occupy paddy fields.

It can be said that in addition to changing to mulberry fields, it is the best way to use inferior soil.

In the Ming Dynasty, as for the average lint yield per mu, it was 0.5 quintals, and the price was 3.6 taels per quintal, or 0.03 taels per catty.

That is to say, if you plant cotton, 20 acres can be sold for 36 taels, and under the current situation, the net income is often 4 percent higher than that of growing grain.

Of course, because cloth is a daily necessity and not a luxury, its profit margins are not as high as those of mulberry.

As for cotton cloth, about 2 and a half catties of cotton can be woven into a cotton cloth 4 feet wide and 7 zhang long, weighing about 20 taels, and the loss rate of spinning and dyeing in the middle is about 50%.

This is the result of the use of long-staple cotton and improved new spinning machines and looms.

The traditional loom needs to use 3 catties of cotton to weave 1 piece of cloth, and the loss rate reaches 60%.

Now in Shandong and other places, the wholesale price of the most ordinary undyed cotton cloth is about 3 yuan of silver.

In the late Ming Dynasty, Chinese cotton cloth began to sell well overseas, and was invincible in the world market because of its low price and high quality.

In the 16th century, during the Wanli period, Chinese cotton cloth began to be exported to the Nanyang Islands, and in the early 17th century, during the Tianqi and Chongzhen dynasties, Chinese cotton cloth, known as Cangas, was exported from Macao to Temasek and Annam in the South Seas.

At the same time, Chinese cotton cloth was shipped from Macao to Nagasaki on merchant ships bound for Japan.

This is because the cost performance of cotton cloth is really low, rather than opening large-scale cotton fields and factories to weave and dye cotton cloth, it is better to put land and manpower into luxury goods such as raw silk and tobacco, and the profits are more huge, but in the case that Li Xiaojun has a rich and stable financial income, if he can solve the production of cotton cloth by himself, it is undoubtedly a powerful boost to Li Xiaojun's development.

Thinking of this, Li Xiao's eyes lit up.